SPECIAL | AI in vertical farming could transform global agriculture
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USA TODAY
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🗓️ 20 November 2024
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AI applications in vertical farming have the potential to usher in a new model that not only yields a high volume of quality product, but also offers a much smaller carbon footprint in terms of resources and the space necessary to deploy them. By incorporating AI, robotics and vertically stacked crops in controlled environmental conditions, the vertical farming model might be a gamechanger in the agricultural sector. Hiroki Koga, co-founder and CEO of Oishii, the company behind the world's largest indoor vertical farm, joins The Excerpt to share his insights into how AI is transforming farming potential.
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| 0:00.0 | Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to USA Today's The Excerpt, ad-free right now. |
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| 0:11.2 | Hello and welcome to The Excerpt. |
| 0:13.4 | I'm Dana Taylor. |
| 0:14.4 | Today is Wednesday, November 20th, 2024, and this is a special episode of The Excerpt. |
| 0:24.9 | Okay. And this is a special episode of the excerpt. Artificial intelligence has had a revolutionary impact across numerous industries that has been felt across the world. |
| 0:32.2 | But one industry in particular that could soon be getting an AI enhancedenhanced makeover is global agriculture. |
| 0:38.3 | AI applications have the potential to usher in a new farming model that not only yields a higher volume of quality product, |
| 0:46.3 | but also offers a much smaller carbon footprint in terms of resources and the space necessary to deploy them. |
| 0:53.3 | Vertical farming may provide such a solution. |
| 0:56.0 | By incorporating AI robotics and vertically stacked crops and controlled environmental conditions, |
| 1:02.0 | the vertical farming model might be a game changer in the agriculture sector. |
| 1:07.0 | Here to help us unpack this and to discuss the potential impacts on farming around the globe, |
| 1:13.1 | I'm now joined by Hiroki Koga, co-founder and CEO of Oishi, the company behind the world's |
| 1:19.2 | largest indoor vertical farm. Thanks for coming on the excerpt to Roki. Thank you for having us |
| 1:24.4 | today, Dana. Let's start with the basics. What is vertical farming? |
| 1:29.3 | And where did this idea first originate? |
| 1:32.3 | So vertical farming is a new way of growing crops indoors without relying on any external sunlight. |
| 1:39.3 | So a lot of the times we're inside a warehouse type building. |
| 1:43.3 | And basically the idea is that we can grow crops anywhere around the world as long as there's |
| 1:49.4 | access to electricity without being impacted by the outdoor seasonality. |
| 1:53.5 | This technology itself was first commercialized in Japan probably more than 15, 20 years ago. |
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